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Thaddaeus Ropac

Seoul, South Korea - Seoul Fort Hill
Sept 1 - Oct 22, 2022

Hours
Tue - Sat 10AM - 6PM


The exhibition Wer jetzt kein Haus hat (Whoever has no house now) premieres a new series of works by internationally renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer paying homage to the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Inspired by poems by Rilke dedicated to the autumn season, the paintings on view will feature dark, silhouetted trees and falling leaves in rich autumn browns leading into winter greys, displaying both the painter and the poet’s fascination with transience, decay and the passage of time. ‘The poem by Rilke has been in my memory for 60 years. I know many poems by heart, they are in me, and every now and then they emerge.’ The works in the exhibition draw on a group of photographs Anselm Kiefer took in Hyde Park, in London, on a sun-drenched autumn day. ‘I was truly shocked by the explosion of colours,’ he recalls, ‘by the overwhelming natural scenery. The light and the colouring of the autumn leaves were of such intensity that I fetched the camera from the hotel and went to work.’
- Thaddaeus Ropac

Anselm Kiefer: Wer Jetzt Kein Haus Hat